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My Experiment On Fried Chicken Followed YouTube’s NO. 1 Fried Chicken Recipe

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Recently, my husband kept telling me to cook less food each meal cos he’s on a diet. And today, when I asked him what he wanted for lunch. He told me he wanted FRIED CHICKEN!!! 😅Hey Dude, aren’t you on a diet?!

I searched fried chicken recipe on YouTube, and this video came out as the top on the list:

I kind of doubted it at the beginning. It’s very different from the way fried chicken I used to do. Especially when I saw mixing hot chili sauce with water and eggs. I was like NO kidding!

But I think that video ranked NO.1 for a reason. Julia Child said :”Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” I always encourage myself to be bold and fearless in kitchen. I was willing to give it a try. The worst result could be that I got terrible fried chicken, but I knew for sure my husband would still like them. He loved almost every dish I cooked. Yeah, he has GREAT taste. 🙂

I cut all ingredients into 1/3 of original, cos I only cooked 4 chicken drumstick. This is how my fried chicken look like. Two of them are very dark colored. That’s because when I tried to measure the oil temperature with thermometer, I found there’s something wrong with thermometer. It didn’t show the number. I turned it on and off several times. When I was struggling with it, I forgot the oil is still on the stove, heating. I finally gave up using thermometer. But then the temperature was a bit high. And the chicken turned out very dark. I turned off the heat for the second batch. It turned out great. The fried chicken was so good. My husband was like “Tai Hao Chi Le” (very delicious). 🙂 The chicken is very tender and juicy. I will definitely cook fried chicken using this method in the future.

There were some flour and sauce left. I used them to cook fried mushroom. Super yummy too. I will explain how I cooked them in next blog. 🙂

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Chicken Chop with Mushroom Sauced Linguine Recipe

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This is a simple combination with meat, vegetate and noodles. Perfect for a rush meal.

For the chicken chop, I used boneless chicken leg.

  1. Sprinkle salt and lack pepper over bother sides of boneless chicken leg.
  2. Heat a pan. When the pan is hot, put the chicken in with skin side down to sear the chicken. Since chicken leg contains fat, I didn’t use an extra oil. Frying needs a bit more patience. Fry both sides till golden brown. Skin will become crispy. Set fried chicken aside.

https://flic.kr/p/Q1sgXy

  1. Use the same pan to fry mushroom in chicken oil. Also add in a little chopped garlic and fry for 2-3 mins. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter. When butter melted, add in 1/4 cup heavy cream. Stir with low heat. Season with salt and black pepper. If you don’t have heavy cream, you can use flour. When butter melted, dissolve 1 tablespoon flour in 1/4 cup water or stock. Pour it into the pan. Also pour in 1/4 cup milk and you will also get smooth and creamy sauce in this way.
  2. Add cooked linguine into the mushroom sauce and mix well.

https://flic.kr/p/Q1sgWb

Serve chicken chop with linguine. A very simple but yummy meal.

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Oven Roasted Crispy Whole Chicken With Potatoes

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My chicken is a small one around 800g, which is enough for two people’s serving. I think I mentioned before that my husband is a meat lover. I was pretty sure he’s gonna love this dish before I even started cooking it.

1. Remove chicken’s head and butt, of course. Cut the chest open with a sharp knife. Sprinkle salt all over the chicken on both sides. Rub a bit by hands.

2. For the marinade:

1 tablespoon cooking wine, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon chopped garlic, 1/2 tablespoon chopped ginger, 1/2 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 tablespoon hoisin sauce ( you may find out that my recipe is pretty Chinese style).

3. Poke chicken several times with a toothpick. Then put it in a bag. Pour all the marinade in. Give the chicken a good massage. Put into refrigerator for overnight. Trust me, the flavor will definitely go in.

4. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Prepare potatoes. Wash them clean and pat with kitchen towel till dry. Cut into halves. ( if potatoes are kind of medium size, better cut into fours). Sprinkle salt, paprika powder and olive oil. Toss a a bit.

5. Take the chicken out. Wipe chicken skin with kitchen towel. I even used a hair dryer to make sure skin is very dry. How insane I am! Better fix the chicken like the posture in the pic below. You can use toothpick like I did.

https://flic.kr/p/2bBsJaB

6. Spread butter onto the chicken skin. I’m very generous with butter.

7. Place chicken in a baking tray with skin side up. Scatter potatoes around it. Potatoes better not under chicken. I found pieces under chicken were still a bit hard and raw.

8. Into the oven for 30 mins. Then turn to 200 degree C and roast for another 10 mins to get the skin crispier. Incredible smell will fill up your kitchen.

Just as I expected, my husband really really loved it.

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Chicken, Vegetable & Vermicelli Stir-fry

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When I don’t have enough time to think what to cook, stir-fry will be my first choice. All I need is to put some vegetables and meat and stir fry them.

1. Soak vermicelli in water for 3-5 mins or till it becomes completely soft and transparent. Cut shorter with scissors. And drain.

2. Cut boneless chicken leg into small pieces. You can also use chicken breast. Place chicken pieces in a bowl, add in 2-3 chopped garlic cloves, 1 tsp chopped ginger, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 2 tsp cooking wine and 1-2 tablespoon corn starch. Mix well and marinate for 10-15 mins.

3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pan. Fry chicken till brown. Then set aside for later use.

4. Heat pan again. Add in a little extra oil if needed. Stir fry carrot slices first for 2 mins. Then add in cabbage, vermicelli and chicken. Stir fry for another 2-3 mins.

5. Add in 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp oyster sauce and 1 tablespoon water. Simmer for 1 min.

6. Season with salt and ready to serve.

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Steamed Chicken Thighs

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1. Marinated chicken thighs with salt, cooking wine and chopped ginger for about 2 hours.

2. Place chicken thighs in a plate. Put the plate on a rack and steam in hot water for 25 mins. Set chicken aside in another plate. Don’t throw away the water from the original steamed plate.

3. Heat a pan, add in 1 tablespoon oil. When oil is hot, drop in chopped spring onion and ginger shreds. Turn off the heat when aromatic.

4. Pour in 1 tablespoon of the chicken water after steam. Also add in a little light soy sauce. Mix well.

5. Pour the mixed sauce over chicken thighs.

Chicken turns out very juicy and tender. You can replace chicken thighs with chicken legs or drumsticks. Or even a half chicken. But the steaming will requires more time.

https://flic.kr/p/28GRT4Y

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Teriyaki Chicken Leg

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1. Prepare a whole boneless chicken leg. Sprinkle a little salt and black pepper.

2. Use the back of knife to hit chicken a bit.

3. Heat a pan on stove. When the pan is hot, put the chicken inside with skin side down. Flip over when the skin turns golden brown. Fry the other side till brown, too.

4. If there is much oil after sear, you can pour the oil out.

5. Add in 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp sugar and 1 tablespoon honey. Let the chicken be coated with sauce.

6. Pour in hot water just enough to cover the chicken. Cover the lid and simmer for a while.

7. Remove the lid. Turn to high heat to reduce the sauce.

Yummy.

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Chopped Cold Chicken

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Chopped Cold Chicken (白斩鸡）is a popular dish in Guangdong cuisine.

I used this cooking method: (original recipe is Chinese)

https://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/102925373/

1. Prepare a very big pot. Big enough for a whole chicken.

2. Add in enough water that can cover whole chicken. Also add in cooking wine, star anise, chopped ginger and spring onion.

3. Bring the water to boil. Grab the chicken. Soak it in hot water and pull it out immediately. Do this in-and-out procedure 3 times.

4. Then put whole chicken into pot. Boil for 1 min.

5. Soak the chicken into cold water to make the skin more elastic.

6. Put chicken into pot and boil for 4 mins.

7. Put the lid on and boil for 1 min.

8. Turn off the stove. Don’t move anything. Keep the lid on. Don’t even touch it. Let the chicken have a good spa for 40 mins. If you want your chicken to be more tender, you can use less time. But that may means you will see blood in the chicken bone. I like to play the safe card. So I let the chicken be there for 40 mins. And by the way, my chicken is around 800g. Bigger chicken needs more time.

9. After a good sauna. Chicken will feel hot. Put it into icy cold water immediately.

10. Brush sesame oil onto it.

Cut it. Don’t throw the chicken soup away. It’s ideal to make other soup or to boil dumplings/ wantons.

Drizzle light soy sauce.

And EAT!

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Not-so-spicy Spicy Chicken Thighs

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I was trying to make some spicy roasted chicken. But they turned out not so spicy. So I came up with that funny name. 🙂

1. Place chicken thighs in a big bowl. I only used two since it’s only for me and my husband.

2. Then I added 2 tablespoon chili powder, 1 tablespoon five spice powder, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper, 1 tablespoon paprika powder, and 1 tsp ginger powder. I thought chicken would be spicy enough. And I marinated them for like 3 hours.

3. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. In the oven for 25 mins. Chicken skin will become very tightened and dry.

4. I was worried chicken would be too spicy for my husband. So I mix 1 tablespoon honey and 1 tablespoon tomato sauce ( my plan was chili sauce) and brush it onto the chicken. Roast for another 5 mins.

And there they are:

Should’ve be spicy but turned out not.

Still my husband loved them. Flavor really goes in and very tasty.

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Braised Chicken With Shiitake Mushroom

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香菇炖鸡

1. Cut chicken into medium chunks. I used 3 whole chicken wings and cut them at the joint. So 1 wing can be cut into 4 pieces. You can also choose boneless chicken leg, better with skin on.

2. Hot pan. Cold oil. Fry chicken till golden brown.

3. Add in 2 or 3 ginger slices. Sauté a bit. Shiitake mushrooms in. Stir fry till aromatic.

4. 1 tablespoon cooking wine, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 2 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce and 1 tablespoon sugar. Mix all ingredients well.

5. Pour in hot water covers evenly ingredient. Bring to boil. Turn to low heat and simmer for 20 mins.

6. Remove lid. Turn to high heat. Reduce the sauce and garnish with chopped spring onion or leek.

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Lemon Chicken Chop

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1. Prepare a boneless chicken breast. Cut into two halves if it’s too thick. Pound chicken with the back of knife.

2. Marinate chicken with 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp white pepper, 1 egg white and 2 tsp sesame oil for 20-30 mins.

3. Heat frying oil in the pot.

4. Coat chicken with corn starch and flour mixture. (Ratio of corn starch and flour is 2:1).

5. Fry chicken till golden brown. Set aside to cool down.

6. Heat 1 tsp oil in a sauce pan. Sauté 2 cloves of chopped garlic till aromatic.

7. Add in juice of 3/4 lemon and 1/4 cup water. Then 1 tablespoon honey and 1 tablespoon sugar. Bring to boil.

8. Add in lemon slices of the rest 1/4 lemon. Simmer the sauce till thickened.

9. Cut chicken chop into slices. Glaze with lemon sauce.